Why didn't they bring the other ECW titles back during WWECW?

[TheBrownRanger]

Yeah, the WWECW sucked. But why were the ECW Television and Tag-Team titles not brought back during the WWECW days? I've never found anything online concerning the reason for this not happening. I believe WWECW would have been more successful if they brought these titles back. Not having these titles diminished the value of the WWECW Championship and, ultimately, the WWECW brand.

Question: Name one mid-card feud from the WWECW. You may not be able to because titles bring interest into these feuds. The Television title could have generated interest in the ECW's midcard. Having Marcus Cor Von, Tommy Dreamer, or CM Punk going at it for this title would have been pretty cool. Hell, the original WWE Hardcore title would have been an acceptable replacement as well.

The Tag-Team titles are self-explanatory. Teams like the FBI, Burke/Terkay (inb4 who da fook is dat guy), and the Hardy's could have benefited from this. Unlike Rhyno, the WWE could have also signed the original ECW Tag champs, Roadkill and Doring for this.

Without secondary titles, why care about the feuds in the Midcard and Tag-Team divisions if they're ultimately for nothing? The diminished value in the WWECW's title certainly didn't help getting any extra attention to the brand.

TLDR: Secondary titles bring more value and attention to the midcard and, ultimately, the ECW brand and main title.

 

[Count Zero]

Roster was too small, just like NXT's now. Before last year's Draft, NXT was only just at that point of possibly needing a secondary title. But then they gutted the roster and can again barely support just the world title.

 

[Prime Shane Douglas]

WWECW was not successful because they cut off Heyman's nuts. Heyman, with basically an unlimited checkbook and free creative control of his show, would have been successful. The OG ECW failed because he went broke, he made SD must see when he was booking it and then Stephanie had to butt in. SD went to shit after. Notice how Raw is shit now and SD is pretty good? Which one is Steph on again?

Heyman knows how to book and has a great sense of the business. He was the brains behind ECW, which was pretty much the NXT for both WCW and WWF during the Monday Night Wars and too the AE before going under.

 

[Count Zero]

WWECW was not successful because they cut off Heyman's nuts. Heyman, with basically an unlimited checkbook and free creative control of his show, would have been successful. The OG ECW failed because he went broke, he made SD must see when he was booking it and then Stephanie had to butt in. SD went to shit after. Notice how Raw is shit now and SD is pretty good? Which one is Steph on again?

Heyman knows how to book and has a great sense of the business. He was the brains behind ECW, which was pretty much the NXT for both WCW and WWF during the Monday Night Wars and too the AE before going under.

I love Heyman. He's clearly very smart, and both knows what the fans want and has a good sense of the business of things.

But he's not a genius and he clearly did not have all that great of a business mind. If he was that smart, original ECW wouldn't have gone out of business. Or maybe he was that smart but it was hubris, thinking ECW was more popular than it actually was, leading him to take some gambles on the business side of things that ultimately caused its downfall.

 

[Sanshou Kid]

I love Heyman. He's clearly very smart, and both knows what the fans want and has a good sense of the business of things.

But he's not a genius and he clearly did not have all that great of a business mind. If he was that smart, original ECW wouldn't have gone out of business. Or maybe he was that smart but it was hubris, thinking ECW was more popular than it actually was, leading him to take some gambles on the business side of things that ultimately caused its downfall.

From what I can gather, Paul Heyman is a bit like Vince Russo in that, when he has someone around him to reign him in and bounce ideas off of (and to keep him from shooting himself in the foot, as it were), he is fantastic.

But when given carte blanche, much like Russo, he tends to go overboard and doesn't have that filter to weed out the less than smart ideas.